WEST CHESTER TWP. — A construction project that just got under way on Cox Road — and already is a headache for motorists, residents and police — worsened Tuesday with road work on detour streets.

Barrels and barriers keep traffic from Cox Road north of Tylersville Road in West Chester Township as road work begins. (Michael Snyder photo) | ZOOM |

        “It's like a nightmare trying to get around there,” acknowledged Chris Petrocy, spokesman for the Butler County Engineer's Office.

        • The intersection of Hamilton-Mason and Butler-Warren roads was shut down for a few hours Tuesday after a contractor doing sewer repairs for Butler and Warren counties dug too close to a pole that supports the traffic light, Warren County Engineer Neil Tenison said. The pole almost fell, had to be removed and will be replaced in about a month when the sewer work is complete. The traffic light has been temporarily restrung.

        • Because that intersection was temporarily closed and Cox Road has been closed north of Tylersville Road since Monday while it is widened from two to five lanes, cars were blocked from coming into the area on the east side of Hamilton-Mason Road at Cincinnati-Dayton Road.

        • To make matters worse, Hamilton-Mason Road just west of Butler-Warren has been restricted to one lane while West Chester Township maintenance workers do patch work. “It was a mess,” said Sgt. Barry Walker of the West Chester Police Department's traffic section. “This was an unforeseen emergency and it was magnified tenfold by the fact that Cox Road was closed. There were really no other roads close by we can move traffic onto to avoid the problem.”

        For workers in the Beacon Point commercial park off Cox Road just south of Hamilton-Mason Road, the various construction projects have been torturous.

        “It's a pain and inconvenient,” groused Justin Doles, an information systems technician His trip back from lunch Tuesday took 30 minutes because of the delays.
       

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